Almost half of the Catalans is wishing that failure to abide by … – Reuters

Almost half of the Catalans is wishing that failure to abide by … – Reuters

Madrid, Sept. 7 (EFE) .- Almost half of the Catalans, 45 percent, were in favor of the Constitutional Court ruling on the sovereignty referendum called for Nov. 9 will abide; 23 percent defends though it is prohibited and a third sees possible independence of Catalonia in the near future.

This is reflected in a survey of Metroscopia published today by the newspaper El País, in which a vast majority of Catalans are in favor of a constitutional challenge to sovereignty posed by the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, and a quarter are inclined to find a solution that does not require the plebiscite.

survey, which was conducted between last 2 and September 4 to a thousand people, reveals that potential voters CiU and ERC are the supporters of the consultation and to ignore the Constitutional Court.

At the opposite extreme voters PSC, PP Initiative are located, we can and Citizens who choose to abide by the decision of the Constitutional and negotiate a new query.

Those who are more in favor of find an alternative that does not require a referendum are followers can (30 percent) and initiative (29 percent), as indicated by the survey.

The so-called “third way” ( find an alternative for Catalonia to provide more powers without declaring independence) is chosen by 42 percent of respondents (primarily voters PSC, ICV, can and Citizens), four points above the last survey, done in July .

Meanwhile, 19 percent of respondents want things to stay as they are, mainly PP voters, while increasing skeptics who declare-pessimistic about options for Catalan independence.

ERC followers see independence in the near future; while CiU divide by halves, for and against, and the rest of the electorate does not believe that a different Catalonia succeed the current one.

Two out of three respondents support early elections as counterpart to the referendum and 71 percent believe that independence is what not long ago.

More than half (54 percent) think the “Pujol case” adversely affect the independence process, while voters ERC and CiU disagreed.